Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

Government agencies (such as the current FBI, CIA, NSA, IRS, FCC, FDA, EPA and much more) have been called “alphabet soup” since the 1930s. “Like, James Bond? Star Trek? The alphabet mafia?” was posted on Twitter on September 18, 2010. “The FCC needs to be dis banded along with the rest of the alphabet mafia” was posted on Twitter on November 22, 2014. “Get rid of FDA EPA and all the alphabet mafia” was posted on Twitter on September 20, 2015.

Media outlets (such as ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, BBC and much more) have been called an “alphabet mafia.” “Chuck Todd is part of the Alphabet Mafia” was posted on Twitter on December 7, 2011. “U do well 2 not watch the 3 or 4 letter alphabet mafia news outlets of Europe and America, but manipulation doesn’t stop there” was posted on Twitter on July 7, 2014. ABC has been called the “Alphabet Network.”

The “Gay Mafia” has also been called an “alphabet mafia” after its letters (such as “LGBTQ”). “‘Alphabet mafia’ out for the Scouts” was a headline in 2013.

Wiktionary: Mafiathe Mafia
1. (specifically) An international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.
2. (by extension) Any organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; often with a modifying adjective, such as a nationality.

One News NowCULTURE ‘Alphabet mafia’ out for the Scouts
Thursday, January 31, 2013 | Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com)
The Boy Scouts of America’s proposal to drop its no-homosexual membership policy on a national level has alarmed some religious organizations that support 70 percent of the scouting units.

Some major corporations have joined homosexual activists in cancelling donations as a way to pressure the Boy Scouts into changing its policy. Another pressure point is sex education—activist groups want their version taught to Scouts instead of leaving the conversation up to the parents.

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And on the 13th floor we have FBI CIA NSA homeland security the whole damn Alphabet Mafia is all on the 13th floor
BTW 13 is a mason number
1:16 PM - 11 Sep 2015

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‏@marymauldin Mary Mauldin Retweeted Less Gov. More Fun.
Think of the insanity of something so simple.
Get rid of FDA EPA and all the alphabet mafia.Mary Mauldin added,
Less Gov. More Fun. @LessGovMoreFun
.’Your #Gov might be too large if its arresting people for selling milk from a cow’ -Sen. Paul
#C4L
#BigBro…
2:20 PM - 20 Sep 2015

Google BooksOrigin - Season Three
By Nathaniel Dean James
Southampton, UK: Millennium Birdhouse Ltd
2016
Pg. ?:
A beat cop for over a decade, Chester needed only the first two letters of the license plate to tell him the dark blue Chrysler 300 belonged to what they used to call the alphabet mafia.